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00:00 In Haiti's capital, dozens took to the streets to demand the resignation of Prime Minister
00:12 Hervé Henry and a reduction in the fuel prices.
00:21 In Colombia, the death toll after an avalanche in the municipality of Getame rose to 21.
00:25 Several more are still missing.
00:30 And Russian vessels fired missiles at surface targets during naval exercises in the northwestern
00:35 part of the Black Sea.
00:36 It is after the announcement that any ship in Ukrainian port will be declared a military
00:40 target.
00:46 Hello welcome to From the South, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Meterezo Studios in Havana,
00:51 Cuba.
00:52 We begin with the news.
00:53 In Haiti's capital city, demonstrators took to the streets to demand the resignation of
01:00 Prime Minister Hervé Henry and a reduction in fuel prices.
01:04 Protesters burned tires and threw stones at the police who responded with tear gas.
01:09 Demonstrators called for the Henry government to lower the price of fuels, including gasoline,
01:15 diesel and kerosene.
01:17 They also blamed the Prime Minister for the increase in violence in the country that saw
01:20 75 people killed and another 40 kidnapped from May 1 to mid-July.
01:30 In Colombia, social organizations mobilized in support of the reforms promoted by President
01:35 Gustavo Petro in the framework of the celebration of the 213th anniversary of the independence.
01:41 During the day, the second period of the Congress was also installed, which changed its composition
01:46 with progressive left-wing political members.
01:48 Likewise, members of social organizations called for a national day of mobilization
01:53 to show their support for the government of President Gustavo Petro.
01:57 In this context, they affirmed that the marches have the purpose of evidencing the struggle
02:03 for the approval of reforms in health, pension and labor matters.
02:12 On the occasion of the 213th anniversary of Colombia's independence, President Gustavo
02:16 Petro traveled to the island of San Andres to commemorate the date.
02:21 In the context of the recent decision of the Inter-American Court of Justice on the litigation,
02:25 the President focused his speech on the history of victories that led to Colombia's independence
02:30 200 years ago and the history of defeats that in more recent years have caused the loss
02:35 of territories to the country on several occasions.
02:39 The head of state highlighted the importance of the relationship with the Caribbean for
02:43 the development of the events that led to independence and emphasized that the concept
02:48 of homeland goes beyond the formalities of protocol and monuments.
02:53 The homeland is a living being, not a statue of marble or copper or bronze.
03:03 The homeland is not inert, it is a flow of history, and it is built from the decisions
03:09 of its societies, mistaken or not.
03:13 The history is the way in which a nation is built.
03:18 The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, delivered homes through the Great Housing
03:22 Mission Venezuela, accounting for a total of 4,600,000 homes delivered to the working
03:28 people.
03:29 The head of state delivered at least 300 houses in the national territory divided into the
03:34 states of Jaraguí, Bolívar, and in the parish of Alto Barinas and the parish of El Valle
03:40 in the city of Caracas.
03:42 In turn, the President emphasized that the work of the Great Housing Mission Venezuela
03:46 is aimed at assisting families in vulnerable situations in the nation.
03:50 Finally, in the midst of the celebration, the head of state detailed that neither sanctions
03:54 nor interference from other countries would prevent work for the well-being of Venezuelans
03:59 from being guaranteed.
04:06 We are on our way to five million.
04:09 We are on our way to five million, and I always say, five million?
04:14 Are we going to stop at five million?
04:17 This blockade is very strong.
04:18 Are we going to stop?
04:20 The sanctions and aggressions are daily.
04:23 Are we going to stop?
04:24 I tell you, Pedro, no one will stop us here.
04:28 No one surrenders here.
04:30 Here we are going forward and forward.
04:32 And the Great Housing Mission Venezuela will reach five million, and we will advance at
04:38 five million or more.
04:40 Be sure of that.
04:43 In Peru, police repression left at least 11 people injured during a day of demonstrations
04:47 in the framework of the third takeover of Lima.
04:50 Mobilization continued after the call for the third takeover of Lima that gathered different
04:54 communities from the north and south of the country to protest against the Nabuluartean
04:58 Congress of the Republic.
05:00 About 3,000 people gathered in the Plaza de Armas of Huancavelica, where members of the
05:06 national police threw tear gas bombs to repress the demonstrations.
05:10 Further, part of representatives of indigenous peoples assured they will not stop the mobilization
05:14 so that the voice of the people is heard.
05:20 The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, informed that recent studies have increased the country's
05:25 lithium reserve from 21 to 23 million tons.
05:28 The country's minister of hydrocarbons and energy, Franklin Molina, mentioned that 66
05:33 people were drilled for the exploration of these salt flats, which gave positive results
05:38 for the exploitation.
05:39 In this context, Luis Arce's administration signed agreements with two Chinese and one
05:44 Russian companies to install direct extraction plants.
05:48 Bolivia is part of the lithium triangle in Latin America, together with Argentina and
05:51 Chile, an area that concentrates about 68 percent of the world's reserves.
06:02 The good news, which is also news that will surely have international impact because it
06:07 will consolidate the country as the third world reserve of lithium on the planet.
06:12 And it's that today we have not 21, but 23 million tons of lithium in Bolivian territory.
06:23 In Argentina, the Metalurgico Workers' Union began a 48-hour national strike in the second
06:28 stage of the Plan of Struggle proposed in the framework of the Union Review of the Sector's
06:32 Agreements.
06:33 The strike was confirmed after the failure of the sixth hearing between the Ministry
06:37 of Labour and the companies representing the metallurgical sector.
06:41 The Workers' Union demands a 30 percent salary increase for the period from July to
06:45 September, among other benefits.
06:47 Meanwhile, the Metallurgical Union stated that if the conflict persists, there will
06:51 be a 72-hour strike next week.
06:58 Let's now take a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok @TelesurEnglish
07:02 where you will find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
07:08 Other stories coming up, stay with us.
07:22 Welcome back to From the South.
07:45 In Colombia, an avalanche in the municipality of Catame left at least 21 people dead and
07:49 several more missing.
07:50 This was confirmed by the governor of the department, Nicolás García.
07:54 The governor reported that nine people are still missing and that he is committed and
07:58 obliged to find them.
07:59 García explained that work continues with machinery to remove the large amount of earth
08:03 slid by the avalanche and declared a state of public calamity in order to have the resources
08:08 to attend to the families affected by the disaster.
08:11 The heavy rain generated a sudden rise of the Naranjal stream, which overflowed and
08:15 swept away more than 20 houses in a small village in the area.
08:24 In western India, the death toll due to a landslide in the village of Irchalwadi rose
08:28 to 16.
08:29 The National Disaster Response Force reported that so far 21 people have been successfully
08:33 rescued.
08:34 The fatalities include six women and four children.
08:38 Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis noted that heavy rains have forced
08:43 the evacuation of nearly 11,500 residents of four districts over the past three days.
08:50 The event took place in a small village of about 225 residents in Khaigdad district,
08:55 part of the western state of Maharashtra, when heavy rains triggered a landslide at
08:59 midnight on Wednesday, burying about 15 homes.
09:07 Chinese authorities launched emergency measures after heavy rains flooded stretches of roads
09:11 in parts of the east and northwest of the country on Thursday.
09:15 Firefighters came to the rescue after some vehicles stalled on the most affected roads.
09:20 On Thursday morning, heavy downpours poured more than 100 millimeters of rainfall on the
09:25 city of Wuxi in China's eastern Jiangsu province, causing flooding on some stretches of urban
09:31 roads.
09:32 Meanwhile, the city of Beijing in Gansu, northwest China, was also hit by heavy rains and even
09:37 hail that caused flooding in urban areas.
09:41 With three days to go until the general elections in Spain, the authorities extended until Friday
09:50 the deadline to cast votes by mail, in view of the high participation of citizens in this
09:56 modality.
09:57 The closing of the postal votes had been proposed for Thursday, but due to the high demand of
10:01 postal votes, it was extended until Friday to facilitate the suffrage of the citizens
10:06 to the maximum.
10:07 The leader of the ultra-right People's Party, Alberto Núñez-Fejo, let the mailmen know
10:12 that they must do their best to safeguard the votes of the Spanish people.
10:16 Likewise, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez denounced this strategy that tries to create disaffection
10:22 so that people do not go to vote and distrust the electoral process.
10:30 In France, President Emmanuel Macron reshuffled his government on Thursday as he seeks to
10:35 give a new boost amid mass protests and riots in recent weeks.
10:38 One of the strategies of the French head of state with this reshuffle is to seek political
10:43 recomposition and to turn it around ecology and to address his immigration reform.
10:50 The official announcement is awaited, but the changes that stand out according to local
10:54 media are the departure of the ministers appointed in 2022 coming from the civil society and
10:59 the change of the Secretary of State.
11:01 With this reorganization, one year after his re-election, Macron wants to reinforce the
11:06 political image of his government.
11:13 On Thursday in the United Kingdom, health care workers rallied to demand better pay
11:16 and working conditions in the most recent strike that has hit the public health system.
11:21 The two-day consultant strike comes against a record patient waiting times due to a huge
11:26 backlog of pandemic cases and multiple strikes across the economy in 2022.
11:31 As workers batter the cost of living crisis, the Union announced that this third strike
11:36 by specialist doctors will last until Saturday.
11:39 The action follows months of disruptions by health care workers, which have led to delays
11:43 in treatment and council appointments for hundreds of thousands of patients.
11:47 In early July, doctors in training staged an unprecedented five-day strike over pay
11:52 and staff retention issues.
11:54 The third strike since April, nursing and ambulance staff have also been on strike,
11:58 although they accepted a 5% wage increase in May.
12:02 "The deterioration of working conditions.
12:07 I think it's not just about the pay.
12:10 It's about generally being asked to work harder with obviously the erosion in the pay as well.
12:17 So that's really enough's enough I think.
12:20 I suppose it's the problem of having a monopoly employer.
12:24 There's their rules or no rules.
12:28 I don't know how I would feel if I had to extend my striking to longer periods because
12:35 again I don't want to affect, I don't want to harm my patients.
12:39 That's really goes against everything that I stand for as a doctor."
12:51 On Friday, Russia's defense minister said Russian military vessels fired missiles at
12:55 surface targets during naval exercises in the northwestern part of the Black Sea.
13:00 This statement added that the crew of the attack vessel Ivanovets of the Russian Black
13:04 Sea Fleet fired anti-armor cruise missiles at a target ship.
13:08 The Russian ministry also said during the joint exercises, the ships and fleet aviation
13:12 worked on isolating the area temporarily closed to navigation and also carried out a number
13:18 of measures to intercept a possible enemy vessel.
13:21 The exercises come after the Kremlin announced that from July 20th, ships sailing in the
13:26 Black Sea bound for Ukrainian ports will be considered possible carriers of military cargo.
13:37 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of the construction of the first
13:41 section of the Arctic LNG-2, a gigantic liquefied natural gas project in the Arctic from which
13:47 the French company Total Energies withdrew in 2022.
13:51 Putin pointed out that the implementation of such projects would make it possible to
13:55 double Russia's capacities within five or six years after the completion of the construction
14:00 of a specialized port for the export of liquefied gas.
14:04 The president also predicted that the completion of the second line of the project will influence
14:09 the traffic on the Northern Sea Route, which will increase and will be accompanied by the
14:14 extension of the fleet of high-class icebreakers destined to sail the Arctic Sea.
14:19 Arctic LNG-2 envisages the construction of three liquefied natural gas production lines
14:24 within an annual capacity of 6.6 million tons each, so that the total capacity of the project
14:31 will be almost 20 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year.
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14:53 We will now take a short break, don't go away.
14:56 Welcome back from the south.
15:16 On Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with former U.S. Secretary of State Henry
15:20 Kissinger at the Diaoyu Tai State Guesthouse in Beijing.
15:25 Xi said that 52 years ago, when China and the United States were at a crucial turning
15:28 point, the two countries initiated the process of normalization of China-U.S. relations,
15:34 which brought benefits to both countries.
15:36 Kissinger thanked President Xi for meeting him at Villa 5 of the Diaoyu Tai State Guesthouse,
15:42 the place where he had met with Chinese leaders during his first visit to China.
15:46 Kissinger also stressed that the U.S.-China relationship is essential to peace and prosperity
15:51 of both countries and the world in general.
15:56 It is delightful to see Mr. Kissinger.
16:05 It has been three years since we last met.
16:09 You have just celebrated your 100th birthday and I wish you good health and longevity.
16:17 The Chinese people never forget old friends and the name Kissinger will always be associated
16:25 with China-U.S. relations.
16:29 The Chinese people will always remember.
16:33 I hold you in high regard.
16:35 The relations between our two countries would be central to the peace in the world and to
16:49 the progress of our society.
16:54 Three months into the civil conflict in Sudan, fighting continues on Abaidet and on Thursday
16:58 caused a temporary interruption of power supply and telecommunications services in the capital
17:03 Khartoum.
17:04 Fighting between the armed forces of Sudan, which answered to the military government,
17:08 and a rebel group known as the Rapid Support Forces continues in Khartoum, North Khartoum,
17:13 Ombudman and North Kordofan.
17:15 The new armed clashes between the two warring sides comes a day after 14 people were killed
17:20 in a drone attack by the parliamentary group on civilian communities in the capital south,
17:25 according to a military spokesman.
17:28 For its part, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated in a report
17:33 that the fighting in this territory has claimed the lives of more than 1,100 people since
17:39 April to date, with more than 12,000 wounded.
17:48 In Kenya, after a day of clashes between the police and protesters, President William Ruto
17:52 reiterated his warning to the opposition coalition, which called for a three-day anti-government
17:57 protest.
17:58 Ruto spoke on Thursday in Isolo, eastern Kenya, where he accused the opposition of sabotaging
18:03 the economy with recurring protests.
18:06 Police fired tear gas and live rounds in Kibera, Nairobi's biggest slum, as protesters threw
18:12 back projectiles.
18:15 Shops and schools reopening in Kenya and the capital's business district, largely shut
18:19 down on Wednesday, also resumed activity Thursday morning.
18:23 Kenya's private sector alliance said it estimated each day of protests cost the economy an average
18:28 of 21.8 million US dollars.
18:34 Every part of Kenya have said we cannot sabotage our economy using violence and destruction
18:42 of business and destruction of property.
18:45 Kenya is the only place we have to call home, and we must protect it by all means.
18:51 We must protect our democracy.
18:53 We must protect the peace in our country, because it is the collective responsibility
18:57 of all of us as citizens.
19:01 Following the same line of Iraq, the Iranian government recalled the Swedish ambassador
19:04 in Tehran after a new desecration of the Quran in Stockholm.
19:08 For the second time in the last few weeks, the Swedish government authorized a new irreverence
19:12 to the Holy Muslim Book, the Quran.
19:15 Following the event, Iraqis stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad early on Thursday morning
19:21 in protest against the desecration of the Holy Book in the European country.
19:25 For its part, the Iranian foreign ministry strongly condemned the repetition of these
19:29 actions and held the Swedish government responsible for the consequences of inciting the feelings
19:34 of the Muslim world.
19:40 For its part, the government of Iraq announced that it will break diplomatic relations with
19:44 Sweden in the event of a new burning of the Holy Book of Islam.
19:48 The office of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani denounced that under the pretext
19:52 of freedom of expression, authorizations are granted for demonstrations that offend Muslims
19:57 all over the world.
19:58 The European nation's response was limited to describing the attack against its embassy
20:02 in Iraq as unacceptable and announced that it would summon the Iraqi diplomatic representative
20:07 in Stockholm.
20:11 "Today we are protesting the burning of the Quran and denouncing the Swedish government's
20:21 attack on the freedom and beliefs of others.
20:25 This is definitely a clear attack on the freedoms and beliefs of others."
20:32 We have come to the end of this news briefing.
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